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Shot at Dawn Memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum

Alrewas, England

'Shot at Dawn' at the National Memorial Arboretum

In an arboretum with hundreds of memorials to the fallen, this one might be the most poignant.

Wimborne Minster Model Town

Wimborne Minster, England

Wimborne Minster Model Town

This tiny town features a tiny town that acts as a 3D snapshot of the town during the 1950s.

The Cerne Abbas Giant

Cerne Abbas, England

The Cerne Abbas Giant

Giant naked man on a hillside.

A microscope focused on the leg of a mosquito - marching across it is a near invisible menagerie of colorful animals, from cheetahs to giraffes to elephants.

Prague, Czechia

Museum of Miniatures

Microscopic scenes; some call it novelty, some call it art.

A parking lot on top of the medieval walls.

Southampton, England

Southampton Walls

A half-mile-long stretch of medieval forts built after a devastating pirate attack persists amid the modern port city.

The site of Blackgang Chine current

Ventnor, England

Blackgang Chine

The UK's oldest theme park slowly slips away.

Charles I

Newport, England

Carisbrooke Castle

The Last Home of an Executed King.

School house

Wareham, England

Tyneham Ghost Village

In 1943 the British military took control of this village, telling residents they had to leave temporarily. The villagers were never allowed to return.

Not-so-traditional village green.

Poundbury, England

Poundbury

Before 1993, this historic-looking village—King Charles III's pet project—didn’t exist at all.

Goathland Station

Goathland, England

Goathland Station

Harry Potter’s Hogsmeade Station is also a charming blast from the past situated in North Yorkshire.

Bangers and Cash

Pickering, England

Bangers and Cash

Mathewsons Auctions is the location for the popular British TV reality show, Bangers and Cash

National Railway Museum York

York, England

National Railway Museum York

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

The Museum

London, England

V&A Museum of Childhood

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

Trench armour

London, England

The Imperial War Museum London

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

The Churchill War Rooms

London, England

The Churchill War Rooms

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

Natural History Museum of London

London, England

Natural History Museum of London

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Platform 9 3/4

London, England

Platform 9 3/4

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

Thiepval Memorial

Authuille, France

Thiepval Memorial

The largest Commonwealth memorial to the missing and dead of the Battle of the Somme.

The cliffside village of Rocamadour.

Rocamadour, France

Rocamadour

This medieval village clings to a cliff in southwestern France.

La Coupole

Helfaut, France

La Coupole

This bunker in northern France was built by Nazi German forces with the intention of launching up to 50 V2 rockets at London each day.

Flamingos in Pont de Gau Ornithological Park

Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, France

Pont de Gau Ornithological Park

Thousands of flamingos and other bird species flourish in these Camargue wetlands.

Futuroscope after dark

Chasseneuil-du-Poitou, France

Futuroscope

France's high-tech, future-themed amusement park.

Normandy American Cemetery

Colleville-sur-Mer, France

Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

(WikiCommons)

Carnac, France

Carnac Stones

Hundreds of prehistoric stones, arranged in perfect lines in a French field.

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